his lot in English

his fate, his destiny, his fortune; his share, his portio

Use "his lot" in a sentence

1. He fabled about his lot.

2. He accepted it as part of his lot in life

3. Did her husband improve his lot by joining her in transgression?

4. It was his lot to taste the bitterness of popular odium"."

5. 14 He grumbles at his lot instead of resolutely facing his difficulties.

6. Thus, he more readily accepts his lot in life than does a Westerner.

7. Let the Allottee then hold his lot upon the conditions which we have mentioned.

8. 5 He has decided to throw in his lot with the far-right groups in parliament.

9. 20 He left his job in the National Theatre to throw in his lot with a small travelling theatre company.

10. 22 Although Paul was evidently confined to prison at the time he wrote the letter to the Colossians, he did not bemoan his lot in any way.

11. Then I realized that it is good and proper for a man to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in his toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him-for this is his lot.

12. 1883, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life: What a change in his lot would have been here, for there seemed to be some pretensions to a title, too, from a barony which was floating about and occasionally moving out of Abeyancy!

13. Ajax son of Telamon pitied them in their fall; he came close up and hurled his spear, hitting Amphius the son of Selagus, a man of great wealth who lived in Paesus and owned much corn-growing land, but his lot had led him to come to the aid of Priam and his sons

14. Deeming it Blesseder to be A rotted man, than live to see So rude a sky as covers thee; Deeming thyself of all unblest And wretched souls the wretchedest, Longing to die and be at rest; Know: that however grim the fate Which sent thee forth to meditate Upon my enviable state, Here lieth one who would resign Gladly his lot, to shoulder thine.